Quote Originally Posted by Saefinn View Post
Shield healing? My feeling here is that it's not going to get much dependence on its shield healing and I feel like it's only going to be a shield healer in name and not practice. This is where I feel like it's going to trip up and makes me concerned this "Pure" and "Shield" healer distinction isn't going to work out.
Based off the tooltips I'm just sitting here thinking "where are the shields?" We obviously don't have all the tooltips, but still, the only shields that we know of are Eucrasia Diagnosis and Eucrasia Prognosis. That ain't exactly a lot for a supposed Shield Healer, especially when the rest of their tooltips have them popping off plenty of Heals and HoTs. Maybe SE is counting all the extra damage reduction as Shields as well since it's reducing the damage taken? I dunno, the whole thing seems a bit scuffed to me. SE is saying they want a split between Pure and Shield, but I'm struggling to see what exactly differentiates a Pure Healer like AST from a Shield Healer like SGE. If the difference is simply Pure Healers having GCD Regens on demand and Shield Healers having GCD Shields on demand then who cares, all healing is done through oGCDs and the distinction is meaningless. SE would have to actually mix up Raid design to encourage Shields, stuff like a two-hit raid wide that applies a Magic Vuln Up on the weaker first hit before blasting people on the second. That would encourage Shields to block the Magic Vuln Up so the party doesn't die to the second hit, although it'd have to be frequent enough otherwise SCH will just pull out Seraph and use Consolation to deal with it through oGCDs, and we all know how SE feels about increasing the frequency of raidwide damage. I dunno, I need more information on all the abilities of all Healers from the Media Tour, but right now Pure vs. Shield seems pointless.